Burrage 'in a good spot' after impressing in defeat by Gauff

Jodie Burrage believes she is "only just getting started" after successfully returning to grand slam competition following a long injury layoff.

- Tumaini Carayol

The British player leaves Melbourne full of confidence after being extremely competitive with Coco Gauff in her 6-3, 7-5 second-round defeat against the third seed at the Australian Open.

"I'm going to take a lot of confidence from the fact that she's No 3 in the world," Burrage said. "I felt like I didn't have a great start. Then I got myself back into it. The game that she broke me, I gave it to her a little bit with those volley [errors]. I'm there with her and I felt like I was in that.

"I'm just starting back from my injury layoff so I think it's really positive. I've got to see it like that because if you had said this to me three, four months ago I would have taken it for sure, both hands. A lot of things that I could have improved, but also a lot of confidence taken from it."